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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 06:09 AM UTC
For early Soviet armor fans, Hobby Boss makes available its take on the T-12 tank.
The concept of the T-12 consisted of a synthesis of the experience gained during the design and mass production of the T-18, and the idea of a multi-tier deployment of weapons, which was consistently tested by American engineers in the design of prototypes of a medium tank. The T-12 had a simple hull structure between two tracks with small-bogie suspension.
It had an eight-sided turret with a rounded commander’s cupola and a crew of four. It weighed 19 tons, was 7.5m long, 3m wide, and 2.8m high. It was armed with a typical Model 32 45mm gun, with space for 1000 rounds, and it even had three 7.62mm DT machine guns in a Fedorov-Ivanov ball mount – one in the commander’s cupola, one next to the main gun, and one on the side of the tank’s turret. Like all Soviet tanks of that time, the T-12 had a removable “tail”, which increases the length of the hull 690mm, and gave the opportunity to overcome the trenches up to a width of 2.65 meters.
Hobby Boss’ Soviet T-12 Medium Tank (83887) is injection molded kit containing more than 300 parts. It features refined details such as a multi-slide molded upper hull and turret, photo-etched parts for additional detailing, and individual track links. The model stands at 178.2mm in length and 75.4mm in width.
Background information on the vehicle as sourced from Hobby Boss.
It had an eight-sided turret with a rounded commander’s cupola and a crew of four. It weighed 19 tons, was 7.5m long, 3m wide, and 2.8m high. It was armed with a typical Model 32 45mm gun, with space for 1000 rounds, and it even had three 7.62mm DT machine guns in a Fedorov-Ivanov ball mount – one in the commander’s cupola, one next to the main gun, and one on the side of the tank’s turret. Like all Soviet tanks of that time, the T-12 had a removable “tail”, which increases the length of the hull 690mm, and gave the opportunity to overcome the trenches up to a width of 2.65 meters.
Hobby Boss’ Soviet T-12 Medium Tank (83887) is injection molded kit containing more than 300 parts. It features refined details such as a multi-slide molded upper hull and turret, photo-etched parts for additional detailing, and individual track links. The model stands at 178.2mm in length and 75.4mm in width.
Background information on the vehicle as sourced from Hobby Boss.
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